The Kekulé Loop: When Language Begins Eating Its Own Tail
## **AI, the Ouroboros of Words and the Planned Obsolescence of Language** ## **Introduction: The Second Kekulé Dream** In 1865, the German chemist August Kekulé famously recounted a strange dream that supposedly solved one of chemistry's greatest puzzles. Exhausted after years of trying to understand the mysterious structure of benzene, he drifted into sleep and saw atoms dancing before his eyes until they transformed into a serpent seizing its own tail. The image of the Ouroboros suddenly revealed what mathematics alone had failed to show: benzene was not an open chain but a closed ring. Whether the story is historically accurate matters less than the metaphor itself. The dream became one of science's greatest Eureka moments, demonstrating how an image could reveal a hidden structure invisible to ordinary reasoning. Today humanity may be living through another Kekulé moment, but this time the discovery concerns neither chemistry nor physics. It concerns language itself....